MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Film round-up: June 15, 2023
MARIA DUARTE reviews of Sunlight, You Can Live Forever, Inland and Greatest Days
(L to R) Barry Ward as Leon and Liam Carney as Iver
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
Sunlight (15)
Directed by Claire Dix
★★★
E
A FORMER addict decides to take his terminally ill best friend and sponsor on one last hurrah across Dublin in a bid to persuade him to choose life in Claire Dix’s touching yet heartbreaking debut fiction feature.
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